Mortimer452, "your" staked coins are cryptsy coins. LOL, heh?
CORRECT! The stake earned on your Cryptsy balance belongs to Vern... too late now.
OK, so there's no way to earn stake on these coins now? Purchased coins cannot be transferred to the wallet on my PC and staked?
You can transfer them to your own wallet now, but you are too late to get any kind of obscene stake... if you did it today then sometime after the 12th you would be eligible for those blocks to stake at the new, reduced rate. Just in case though... you should stick to transferring out blocks of 100 million or less at a time.
Right, I understand the stake is massively reduced under the new rules. I just wasn't sure how it worked.
So all I need to do is transfer 100mil at a time to my wallet and just let it sit there? 1 CENT per 10,000 in my wallet just magically appears after 9 days?
I really wish more people would take the time to read the PoS whitepaper...
There is no magic... stake is a reward for participating in the network...
The point of stake is for users to hold coins and have the client open a lot more often than a normal PoW coin would. The object is to stave off 51% attackers because so many people have valid nodes working by keeping their wallets online.
To encourage this, PoS will take a block of coins in the wallet that has met a certain time criteria, and will ATTEMPT to use the CPU to MINT a PROOF OF STAKE BLOCK... this is a valid block in the chain... just like a normal PoW block. PoS blocks can contain and confirm transactions just like a normally mined PoW block, and thus must also meet the same criteria as a PoW block, as in it must be accepted by the blockchain and all the other peers... it is possible to have a PoS block orphaned because another block was generated at the same time by another user.
The whole idea was created for PPC so that one day... no hardware would ever need to be used to mine blocks when the final PoW block is minted... a more energy efficient chain can be maintained and transactions verified just by users keeping their wallets alive and PoS blocks minting. That is why there is even a separate difficulty associated with PoS minting compared to PoW minting.
So yes, all you need to do is transfer your coins to your wallet and wait... keep it open or open it back up on day 7-8 and let it stay on line. Later, you will see blocks show up and will credit you stake coins.